ISDA AGM Studio: Jack Hattem and Tom Wipf

ISDA’s Ann Battle talks to Jack Hattem, ISDA board member and managing director, global fixed income, at BlackRock, and Tom Wipf, ISDA board member, vice chairman of institutional securities at Morgan Stanley and chair of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, about the shift from 30 LIBOR settings at the end of 2021, and lessons that can be learned ahead of the transition from five US dollar LIBOR tenors in mid-2023.

A Path to Greater CFTC-SEC Alignment

Earlier this week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a roundtable on regulatory harmonization – an initiative we wholeheartedly support. The US regulatory framework has evolved over time to facilitate financial markets...

Working Towards Tokenized Collateral

One of the lessons learned from recent market shocks – including the 2020 dash for cash and the UK gilt market crisis in 2022 – is that when volatility strikes and market participants must suddenly generate large amounts of cash...

IQ Interview Yazeed Alnafjan

ISDA published new legal opinions in June that recognise the enforceability of close-out netting in Saudi Arabia under regulations published by the Saudi Central Bank earlier this year. In this interview with IQ, Yazeed Alnafjan, the central bank’s deputy governor...